ODDS AND ENDS 
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Is that true? No, honey is not a whit more 
fattening than sugar and is much more easy to 
digest, since the bees have saved us one step in the 
process of digestion. It is an invert sugar, and 
contains many vitamins which ordinary sugar lacks. 
In an old house once inhabited by Shakers—that 
group of practical mystics, who are fast disappearing 
through lack of recruits—my attention was once 
attracted to a relic. It was an old card, on the order 
of a modern placard or poster, advertising their 
honey. A slender clover blossom was drawn on 
each side of the card and between was the following 
lettering in graceful, painstaking script: 
From soul of Flowers 
To sweeten the soul of Man . 
